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position-based application switching in traditional window managers
I have a related question on SU that is asking for any tools which apply this concept:
Suppose that I've got a perfectly reasonable set of two terminal windows, two web browsers, and one email ...
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What is better - window buttons on the left (OS X) or on the right (Windows)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
close button on the left or right side?
Windows has window buttons (minimize, maximize, close) on the right, OS X on the left. Is one of these objectively better or is ...
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How to handle Desktop Application frame sizing/scaling
I am working on a new project which is focused on a desktop application for users. I am looking to find out more information, answers, best practices when it comes to handling sizing and scaling with ...
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TDI vs SDI - when should an app that saves files to disk have one window per “document”?
tl;dr How should an application handle windows for content-savable-to-disk (sort of documents) behave under an OS that has menu-bar-per-window (Windows, Gnome Shell) and under an OS that has single ...
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Opening website external links in new window — published usability tests
In usability discussions about opening website external links in new windows, with regard to the argument of "keeping users on the site" there are occasionally references to usability studies which ...
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Usability of window docking
I'm working on a WPF desktop application. A stakeholder requested window docking (like Visual Studio 2010) for managing multiple windows inside the application. This option makes sense for the design ...
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Managing multiple windows in one application
I am developing a desktop application to create, arrange and read blocs of sounds, via a grid interface like this :
Each bloc of sound is of different nature and has its own panel to control its ...
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Is it okay to open a help link in a new window?
I have read Jacob Nielson's usability book and he says links should never open in a new window. Here are some of his reasons:
Novice users cannot manage multiple windows and become disoriented.
The ...
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Are some of Windows 7's UI less intuitive than previous versions?
One feature I can't understand is the minimize to desktop button. I can't imagine why it is more intuitive to put it as this little tiny transparent strip on the bottom right hand side instead of ...
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What is the best way to manage windows?
There are a few possibilities out there for window management.
In Mac OS, the bottom right corner of every window is draggable and will resize a window. There is no window border. Window controls ...
